Story
When I was a university student, I often felt stressed when learning something new.
The main issue was that I couldn’t find the perfect tool for temporarily saving web articles or pages that caught my interest.
I frequently used browser bookmarks, but as the number of saved pages grew, it became difficult to manage them.
Although there were services like Pocket, they didn’t quite fit my needs.
That’s why I decided to create a new “Read Later” tool that would be as simple and straightforward as possible.
This led to the birth of LinkMemo.
It was a simple Chrome extension that allowed users to save URLs and titles with just one click. My blog post about it in Japanese garnered attention, and at one point, over 1,200 users were using it.
Unfortunately, due to a lack of maintenance, it was removed from the Chrome Web Store in 2022, but I resumed development in 2024 and released a new version.
Even today, around 500 users continue to use it, and it remains my ideal “Read Later” tool.
Features
LinkMemo is the simplest ‘Read Later’ Chrome Extension. You can easily save the URL and title of any page with a single click.
- One Click to Save: Save the URL and title of the page you are viewing with just one click.
- One Click to Open: Open the saved page with just one click.
- Two Click to Delete: You can open the delete menu by clicking the trash icon, and delete the saved page with just one more click.
LinkMemo is initially implemented with Vue.js, but I migrated it to Preact and TypeScript in 2024 to improve the maintainability and readability of the code.